How to create a messenger app??

[suyash...@shephertz.co.in]

I want to create a messenger app, I want to know how I can create a background process, which will check for notifications. I want to show an icon in system tray. I also want to create notifications??? 

[Anatoly Pashin]

For "background process, which will check for notifications" you should use something like socket.io connection emmiting new messages from/to user. For icon see https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Tray

As far as I know notifications are not implemented for now due to they are in unstable state in crhomium upstream. But you can make annoying app focusing chat window on new message :)

четверг, 12 сентября 2013 г., 21:35:09 UTC+11 пользователь suyash...@shephertz.co.in написал:

[Laszlo Z. Antal]

Hi,

On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Anatoly Pashin <anatoly...@gmail.com> wrote:

For "background process, which will check for notifications" you should use something like socket.io connection emmiting new messages from/to user. For icon see https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Tray

As far as I know notifications are not implemented for now due to they are in unstable state in crhomium upstream. But you can make annoying app focusing chat window on new message :)

Good advice there. If your app is lightweight it might be better if you just use web workers instead an other library.

For notifications just create a new frameless window with a close X icon and show it at the top right corner of the window. I would add a timer to close it self after x seconds for good UX measures.

Laszlo

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четверг, 12 сентября 2013 г., 21:35:09 UTC+11 пользователь suyash...@shephertz.co.in написал:

I want to create a messenger app, I want to know how I can create a background process, which will check for notifications. I want to show an icon in system tray. I also want to create notifications??? 

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[suyash...@shephertz.co.in]

Thanks guys for replies.

I want that, even if a user closes the window, the process will run in background, and when the user will click the tray icon, the window will appear. 
How to run a process on startup of program, instead of creating a window. Through that process I will create windows.

[Laszlo Z. Antal]

Hi

On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:42 PM, suyash...@shephertz.co.in wrote:

Thanks guys for replies.

I want that, even if a user closes the window, the process will run in background, and when the user will click the tray icon, the window will appear. 
How to run a process on startup of program, instead of creating a window. Through that process I will create windows.

After you start your app just hide the current window. Not front of my computer but it looks something like this.

var gui = require("nw.gui");

var win = gui.Window.get();

win.show(false);

That will hide the current window and you can show it again by calling win.show() when needed.

Wiki page has examples for tray icon.

Laszlo

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On Thursday, September 12, 2013 4:05:09 PM UTC+5:30, suyash...@shephertz.co.in wrote:

I want to create a messenger app, I want to know how I can create a background process, which will check for notifications. I want to show an icon in system tray. I also want to create notifications??? 

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[suyash...@shephertz.co.in]

Thanks!!! :) This is what I was looking for